Handle-connecting trim member



Sept. 16, 1930. BRBA UM 1,775,843

HANDLE CONNEG'TING TRIM MEIBER Fi10d Sept. 18, 1929 Patented Sept. 16, 1930 .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH BIRBAUM, OF WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN,ASSIGNOR TO1VIILWA'UKEE STA'MPING COMPANY, OF WEST ALLES, w1rsconsm, A 'CORPORA'I4ION er WISCONSIN HANDLE-(L'ONNECTING TEIM MEMIBER Application filed September 1s 1929. Serial1l'o. 393,370.

My invention relates to improvements in handle connecting trim members o1 journal members which receive the swing loops of the handles f traveling bags and other receptacles.

The object of 1ny invention is t0 provide simple and inexpensive means for preventing the swing loop fro1n shifting in its bearings.

The swing loops ordinarily employed 130 connect the handles of baggage receptacles with the trimrning on the bzw frame, are usually of the sp1it ring type T12Wing straight extremities axially aligned and journaled in suitable pivot bearings for1ned in the trim.

The handle connecting trim members ordinarily comprise sheet metal stampings having prongs Which extend through slot-s in one of 1;he bag fraine 1nembers to be clinched 01' riveted 011 the inner side and these bearings have heretofore been open 0n the inner side except at the ends of the tri1n member, thereby allowing the swing 100p to shifi: to a position where it cramps in the bearing und 93 fails t0 swing With the handle from position o:f use to one 0f non-use, etc.

It is my object to so construct the trimming that it Will prevent shifting movements 0f the swing loops in their own plane without adding 110 the expense 0f construction or impairing the appearance of the trim member.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an isometric view of a suit case 110 which my invention has been applied.

Figure 2 is a sectional VieW of one of the trim members, drawn to a plane through the axis of the swing loop bearing and showing fragments 0I" an associated swing loop.

Figure 3 is a plan view 0f the trim mem- 0 ber with the outer Wall of the bearing and the major portion of the swing 100p broken away.

Figure 4 is a view sanken at right angles to Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 2, showing a modified form of swing loop.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

My improved trim member may be 0f ordinaryconstruction except as hereinafter described, and i t is secured to the lock side band 10 by clinching prongs 11 which pass through s1ots in the band, in accordance with ordinary practice. The body portion 0f the trim member comprises a hollow shell 12 having 'a central portion st rnck up to form a generally semi-oylindrical bearing membei 13. Heretofore it has been customary t0 pungzh openings 14 in ehe end Walls 15 of t h is upwardly oflset 01 struck up portion int0 which theextremities 16 of the Swing loops may be inserted.

Instead of removing the material through which these openings 14 are punched, I simp1y sever such material 011 three sides from what may be termed the end Wall 15 of the offset portion and band this partially severed 1naaerial inwardly to for1n a lip 17, preferably 0f the contour shown in Figure 3. This provides an opening 14 into which the end o1 the swing 100p may be inserted, and the 1ip 17 forms a bearing for the inner side of the inserted portion oi the swing loop.

By thns forming the apertures 14 at each end of the bearing and bending the partially severed material inwardly t0 form lips 17, I am able t0 nearly bridge ehe space between the apertures on the inner side of the bearing, and thus provide a substantially closed,

se1ni-cylindrical 01 nearly tubular bearing mernber in which the straight end portions 16 of the swing loop may be journaled. The lips 17 prevent the elbowed 0r bent portions 19 0f the swing 100p from entering the bear ing because the distance between the lips 17 and the outer Wall 13 is substantially equa.l t0 the diameter cf the wi1e or 10d from which the swing loop is formed und, therefore, a bearing having the lips 17 will receive 0n1y those portions of the swing loop, the axes 01 which coincide with the axis of the bearing.

lt is therefore, obvious that the bearing Will n0t receive the arcuate portions 20 or 21 of a swing loop having the contour illustrated in Figure 2 and it Will also appear from Figure 5 that a swing lo op having its major portion 22 constructed in the form 0f a true circle will have its extremities 16 

